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Orlando Haddad: Orlando Haddad's outstanding facility as a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter is augmented by his lifelong involvement with Brazilian rhythms and percussion. A native of Lavras, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Orlando has been a bandleader almost continuously since the age of 12. As a child growing up in Brazil he studied classical piano and guitar; later he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he studied at the Villa-Lôbos Institute and pursued private guitar studies. In 1974 he came to the US to study music at the North Carolina School of the Arts, where he graduated with a degree in composition. He received a Masters of Science degree in Arts Administration from Drexel University in 1986, and in 2002 a Masters in Composition from Temple University, in Philadelphia. Orlando is a faculty member at Philadelphia's University of the Arts where he conducts Brazilian Jazz and Percussion ensembles, teaches classes on Business of Music, and History of Brazilian music. Orlando has been invited to teach at The University of Pennsylvania as a visiting professor, where he successfully conducted an ensemble of graduate students, on the subject of Brazilian percussion.
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